America's Funniest Home Videos

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Knock it all you want, this is season 24 of "America's Funniest Home Videos," and while Tom Bergeron may not have been the series' first host, he has been on it for years. We are told that, to this point, the show has given away more than $12 million in prizes. Do you have any idea how much that translates into per private part hit with a baseball/bat/car/tree/dog/etc.? Okay, yes, it's a small number when looked at that way, but the show is still here and still going strong. The new season starts tonight.

Highlights include a family whose missing TV remote is found wrapped in a gift on Christmas morning; kids' excitement when they realize they're en route to the beach; hysterical women after finding a live snake; "Say What?" game; cat music montage.

You would think that watching people get hit in the gonads with a bat, ball, tree branch, or car would eventually grow tiring. Well, "America's Funniest Home Videos" is back for yet another season and that, as much as anything else in the entire universe, proves to us that while seeing someone else get hit in the gonads may eventually get old, it hasn't gotten old yet. Tom Bergeron continues to host and poor, unsuspecting fellows continue to risk the possibility of never having (more) children.

Home video clips including parents who discover their son sleeping with his pajamas full of toys, a montage featuring misfortunes caught on security cameras, Angry Deer vs. Dudes in Speedos, and a game of "Too Far? Too Short? Or Just Right?"

There will be those out there who will say that not only is it simply impossible for there to actually be more funny home videos in this nation after 20 years (this is the 21st season of the show), but that the videos were never funny to begin with. That is the sort of ridiculous, defeatist, attitude of which we do not approve. Getting hit in the groin with a baseball bat or stick is always funny and the fact that people still go around near bats and sticks without always wearing a cup is the funniest part of all. Wear a cup - it's always worth it.